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Heat Reuse In Data Centers May Be Required And Regulated

Forrester IT

Debates surrounding the Energy Efficiency Act, which aims to reduce energy use in public authorities, corporations, and data centers, will potentially influence future laws globally. Here’s the context: Data centers use a lot of energy. Why is this important and what does it mean?

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GreenOps, FinOps, And The Sustainable Cloud

Forrester IT

The consistent, high-usage profile of data centers may lead us to believe that cloud data centers are markedly more sustainable than private cloud data centers. A single public data center can consume the same […]

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Box Commits to Adopting Renewable Energy for its Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

Cloud file-sharing giant Box has inked an agreement with the environmental group Greenpeace to eventually run its infrastructure entirely with renewable energy. colocation Green Data Centers'

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Singapore government pushes energy-efficient data center plan

Network World

The Singapore government is advancing a green data center strategy in response to rising demand for computing resources, driven in large part by resource-hungry AI projects. Singapore wants to go beyond that and reduce energy use for air-cooling by raising the temperatures at which servers and storage racks can safely operate.

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Private Data Center Trends for 2014 and Beyond

CTOvision

Today’s data centers are being built at the forefront of industry standards. Within the past five years, the way we construct data centers has changed dramatically. David Cappuccio, the Chief of Infrastructure Research at Gartner, told CIO that “Data centers will no longer be constrained by one specific site.

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Apple’s Leased Data Center Energy Use Quadrupled Since 2012

Data Center Knowledge

Colocation energy use now accounts for nearly one-quarter of Apple’s total data center energy consumption Read More.

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Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

The interior of a container packed with servers at a Microsoft data center in Chicago. “I claim there really are almost no companies in the world, just a handful, that are really investing in scaled public cloud infrastructure,” said Ballmer (see transcript ). 12 Million SF of New Microsoft Data Centers?